Posted on 11/02/2015 5:53:03 PM PST by amorphous
This is what I think until better information comes forth to change my opinion.
31,000 feet is just the vertical distance. If there is any horizontal component, it makes it even less likely.
Exactly. That’s like saying a .22 will go over a mile. While true, intentionally hitting something at that range is extraordinarily unlikely.
Um, the basis of the OP is just such an infrared signature.
And man potable missiles now are WAY more effective than during GWI or GWII.
But you may be (and probably are) right. That means a bomb or mechanical failure. I doubt the latter.
Um, the basis of the OP is just such an infrared signature.
And man potable missiles now are WAY more effective than during GWI or GWII.
But you may be (and probably are) right. That means a bomb or mechanical failure. I doubt the latter.
That was reported earlier, but not confirmed. It turned out to be incorrect.
Isis has released infra red video.
"We'd be remiss if we didn't note the video released by ISIS which purports to depict the plane exploding in mid-air doesn't appear to show any kind of missile, but rather seems to suggest someone on the ground knew the exact time when the aircraft was set to explode."
It was reported in the media that an Egyptian official stated that the pilot declared he had technical problems and was asking for clearance to descend and land immediately (emergency landing).
The Russians have declared this not to be true.
No one in Egypt is saying anything.
Here's the ATC who originally reported it.
(just kidding about the photo. The rest is true.)
Uh oh. The unnamed senior official ran to NBC in panic mode because Omugabe provided the missile.
SomeONE??? So we have a suicide bomber, or did they mean to say someTHING?
Well that settles it then. They wouldn’t lie, manipulate or exaggerate.
Yeah. They must have tried to stir the fuel tanks.
Missile and Obama Admin protecting Hillary’s sale of stinger-type technology to terrorists?
Remember the jihads were planning on sewing up bombs inside themselves.
I was going to do a TWA-800 fuel tank spoof, but obviously you folks don't need me to tell you what they're already looking at as an excuse.
Well hell, it worked last time.
BTW, if 18-yr old memory serves correctly, the technology of the OP’s article’s report (IR signal via satellite intercept,) is worthy of, or was worthy of being on Hillary Rotten Clinton (Her Thighness’s) un class email.... Though was at a time TS-SCI-TK...
The seeker heads are a bit more effective, but the rocket motors aren’t. The IR seeker head on even the latest Stingers can’t even *see* the exhaust of a commercial high bypass turbine engine of the type on the Airbus A320 beyond about 15-20 thousand feet and it certainly can’t get IR off the fuselage at that distance.
Not a missile unless it was a rather large truck or track mounted system - and we didn’t provide any of those to ISIS.
To get to a plane flying this high, we’re talking about a missile about 8 feet long and about a foot in diameter, weighing a couple hundred pounds and requiring a launching framework that’s most of a ton. It’s not man portable.
The article says that a satellite detected the heat signature of the plane exploding, but saw no heat signature indicating a missile.
Your Reynold's Wrap Stetson is a perfect fit.
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